Credit Monitoring / Slate PCs / House Values / Laptop Docking Stations / My Hard Drive Crashed! / Geekly Update
In today's TOURBUS,
you'll find online tools for Credit Monitoring, and how to check your credit report for free.
I've also got a roundup of Slate PCs that you should look at before buying an iPad.
And did you know there are free online tools that will estimate the Value of Your House?

If you have a laptop or notebook, get the scoop on Docking Stations -- you might not need a desktop computer at all.
What would you do if your Hard Drive Crashed? Bone up on data recovery tips before it happens!
And don't miss the most recent editions of the Geekly Update. Read on!

Credit Monitoring

Your credit is one of your most important assets in this day and age. It's also vulnerable to identity theft; credit reporting errors; and simple misunderstandings that can damage your credit and adversely impact more than just your ability to borrow money.

It's important to monitor your credit and correct any problems you can as quickly as possible. Here's how to keep tabs on your credit without getting ripped off...

The fashionable Apple iPad has sparked renewed interest in a category of computers known as the "Slate PC." It may surprise you to learn that, long before the iPad appeared everywhere, there have been many makes and models of this form factor. And I'm not talking about Fred Flintstone as a technology pioneer.

Check out these current and upcoming slate PCs before you run off to the Apple store...

The real estate market typically heats up this time of year, so you might be thinking of buying or selling a house. The value of your house is more important than ever, given the uncertainty in the current economy, and so many homeowners facing bankruptcy or foreclosure.

These free online tools to help you determine how much your house is worth should come in handy...

A laptop docking station is a powered system of ports into which a laptop computer is plugged, allowing the laptop to recharge its battery and connect to various desktop devices. A docking station allows a laptop to double as a desktop computer with more resources than will fit in a shoulder bag.

When the hard drive in your computer crashes and all of your digital possessions seem to disappear, have faith. Faith is the ability to not panic. In most cases, in spite of appearances, your data is still intact.

It's very unlikely that all of your stuff is gone forever. Here are some tips on recovering data from crashed a hard drive...

Is Darth Vader using the force to hack into your GPS? If you stacked 10 million eBooks on top of each other, how high would the pile be? And does social networking make you more vulnerable to identity theft?

Get answers to these burning questions, and 100 free electrons, just by reading the most recent installments of the Geekly Update.